How the damned cannot desire any good.
"And their hatred is so great that they cannot will or desire any
good, but they continually blaspheme Me. And do you know why they
cannot desire good? Because the life of man ended, free-will is bound.
Wherefore they cannot merit, having lost, as they have, the time to do
so. If they finish their life, dying in hatred with the guilt of
mortal sin, their souls, by divine justice, remain forever bound with
the bonds of hatred, and forever obstinate in that evil, in which,
therefore, being gnawed by themselves, their pains always increase,
especially the pains of those who have been the cause of damnation to
others, as that rich man, who was damned, demonstrated to you when he
begged the favor that Lazarus might go to his brothers, who were in
the world, to tell them of his pains. This, certainly, he did not do
out of love or compassion for his brothers, for he was deprived of
love and could not desire good, either for My honor or their
salvation, because, as I have already told you, the damned souls
cannot do any good to their neighbor, and they blaspheme Me, because
their life ended in hatred of Me and of virtue. But why then did he do
it? He did it because he was the eldest, and had nourished them up in
the same miseries in which he had lived, so that he was the cause of
their damnation, and he saw pain increased to himself, on account of
their damnation when they should arrive in torment together with him,
to be gnawed forever by hatred, because in hatred they finished their
lives."